Stephanie Boucher

Stephanie Boucher (1964-2018) was an American congressional aide who, in 2018, was bribed $250,000 by the Russian SVR intelligence agency to share information on a satellite defense system.

Biography
Stephanie Boucher worked as an aide to an Asian-American US Senator, and she was a divorced woman with a daughter in college. In 2018, she decided to sell information on a satellite defense system to the Russian SVR agency in exchange for $250,000 so that she could pay for her daughter's tuition. She met with SVR agent Marta Yelenova, who seduced her while Boucher was in Budapest, Hungary, and they agreed to meet in London to exchange the information. However, she instead met with Dominika Egorova at a bar, where Egorova blackmailed her into working with her instead; Egorova threatened to reveal the fact that Boucher was working with the Russians, which would lead to Boucher losing her security clearance and her job, if she refused to continue with the deal. Boucher was then brought upstairs to meet with both Egorova and Residentura chief Maxim Volontov, and she gave the supplied information in exchange for the money; Egorova secretly exchanged the supplied information for CIA-supplied floppy disks, as Egorova was secretly a double agent. The drunk Boucher accepted the money, and she was told to wait an hour in the room before leaving, as the Russians were to leave first. However, Boucher decided to take the money and leave immediately, and the American agents decided to move in for the arrest, as the information was placed by Egorova in a secret compartment of the hotel room's desk, and Boucher would be caught with the Russian money. However, she was spooked when CIA men began to approach her from all sides as she walked out of the hotel, and she was hit by a truck as she backed into the street.